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In the upcoming weeks, Your Insomniac Blues Show will be informing listeners
of a Locally Produced/Directed Feature Film en-titled "Cure for the Crash".
Stay Tuned to this Blog for information about the Feature Film Screened
during the New Orleans Film Festival October 16th...
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Guitarist John Scofield will visit WWOZ at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21 to chat with T.R. Johnson on Jazz from the French Market. Catch Sco' with the Piety Street Band (Jon Cleary, George Porter Jr., & Terence Higgins) this Saturday at Tipitina's.
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Dear Listener,
I just renewed my membership online. I didn't intend to -- I usually wait for
the Membership Drive, which is just around the corner (September 30 through
October 7). I like to pledge when there's someone on air doing something
uber-cool, whether it's a show...
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My jazz education involved mostly artists who played instruments, not
vocalists. There were really only three vocalists who were deemed by my
mentor to be worthy of intense study: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and
Sarah Vaughan.
I loved Ella immediately. Her style is ...
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Anniversaries Week(of fear!) My dogs are deathly afraid of bad weather so
I was not surprised to wake up to a familiar nose-to-snout view of Wally's
fearful eyes. Wally's a big baby. I went right back to sleep. Rain puts
me into lala land. I woke up to Mary's alarmed ...
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The Battle of New Orleans. 09/11/10
PRAYER VIGIL AND AWARENESS CONCERT
"Providence has showered on this favored land blessings with out number, and
has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of
the human race" - Andrew Jackson
Prayers at Ja...
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Drew Landry says it "isn't about me", it's about a song and a benefit. It's
about saving South Louisiana and the Gulf Coast from washing away. It's
about standing up for the people that are the real America, not the greed
that leeches the life from the land. It's about get...
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